Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27
CHATTANOOGA.


The total enrollm emit at the Chattanooga
public schools is about 5000.
Chattanooga expended 81, 260, 900 in new
buildings In 1886. 1t will exceed $4,000
900 this year.
Work will begin In thirty days on q
100000 United States building to be
erected In the city.
The Chattanooga post office receipts
have Increased 80 per cent. since last
spring, and the total receipts for the
twelve months ending in June will exceed
$4,000, making 1t frst-class office.
The Legislature has just passed bill
authorizing Chattanooga to expend$1, 0OO,-
600 for street paving.
Chattanooga shipped over 1000, 900
pounds OF Strawberries to the East last
year, every pound Of which was raised
within four miles of the city.
The average temperature at Chattanoo-
ga fer the period since 1879, when the
United States signal Office was estab-
lfshsd here. was the golden mean, so de-
grees.
Chattanooga expended over $3.50, 900 for
new churches In the past two years and
will spend $3.50, 900 for the same purpose
in the ensuing twelve months.
Chattanooga is the first and only city In
the South to make Bessemer steel.
Chattanooga has the largest tannery in
America.
Chattanooga has the largest fire brick
and tile works in the South.
The wholesale business OF Chattanooga
has increased 90 per cent. in the past
eighteen months.
Toe custom receipts at Chattanooga are
larger than at any inland point south OF
Cincinnati.
over eight million dollars has been In
vested in real estate at Chattanooga and
..wrf. nfv I'm
fOurths OF which has come from MissIs-
sippi. This demonstrates that the people
of TIE South, who know our city best,
have abiding faith in the city.
Chattanooga is composed OF a cosmo-
politan people, largely from the North
ern States. Every newcomer is cordially
received and made TO feel that he Is well
GENE.
Chattanooga consumes more raw pig
iron daily than any other two cities in the
South.
Chattanooga manufactures 100 per cent.
more furniture than any city in the
South.
Chattanooga has the third largest steel
rail mill in America.
Two national banks of the city showed
deposits to aggregate s4,0O0.o00 in their
official statement at the close or business
March b.
BY July 1 two steam railways will OK
tend from Chattanooga TO the crest OF
Lookout Mountain, and another will ex-
tend from the city to the top Of Waldsn's
ridge.
Within fifteen minutes ride OF Chatta-
noogs is the famous resort, Lookout, an
nual capacity of 320, geo tens, az follows:
Two are at Chattanooga, two at Day ton,
two at lockwood, one at Oskdale, oHe at
Rising Fawn, one at Cherokee Mountain,
where the temperature In summer never
reaches So degrees and blankets are re-
quired every night, from the point Of
which seven States can be seen and the
scenery TO be Witnessed from whichzis
pronounced by Talmage, Beeoher and
other great travellers to surpass anything
in the Alps or Rockies.
Before the present year ends Chatta-
noosa will have twenty Niles Of dummy
transit lines and fifteen miles Of street
railway.
Chattanooga manufactures moro min.
ersl paint than any city In the Union;
there IL one new mill now being completed
which Will produce twenty-five tens per
DAY, fifty per cent. more than any one
single mill In the country.
Five years ago there we're not a half
dozen men In the city worth 50,o00; now
there are twenty-five wertn over quarter
OF million and fully 200 worth over $780,
OOU, every uOllhr VI Wnlcn Whb mhue al
Chattanooga.
There are In the Chattanooga iron dis
trict to-day twelve blast furnaces with
another at Cherokee, Ca; two at South
PIttsburg, enc at Cowan. Two more are
TO be built near south Plttsburg. four
more at Chattanooga, two at Soddy near
Chattanooga, one at lockwood, which
will make twsnty-one blast furnaces in
and within seventy milesof Chattanooga.
There are 800 coke ovens in Tennessee
to-day against 056 in 1880; 500 more are
to be erected by the Chattanooga Land,
Coal, Iron and Railway Company, 200 by
John Ferguson at Chattanooga, and 200
more at Soddy, twenty miles from Chat
tanooga, 200 by the McNabb Coal Com
pnny, eight miles from Chattanooga, 200
at Daisy, fifteen miles from Chattanooga,
making 1900 new ovens In and about the
city during the present year.
The territory drained By the Tennessee
river Is $4,000 square miles in extent and
10 one OF the richest regions In natural
resources In the world. Its marble, iron
ore, c0al, copper, zinc, lead. building
stone aud timber are in inexhaustible
supplies; its agricultural products are
now large, but not per cent. has vet been
realized. Chattanooga 10 by natural To-
cation the centre and must inevitably be
the distributing depot tor all this bound
less wealth.
In 1877 the chief products OF the Chat
tanooga district were as follows: Wheat,
1sV3V, 054 bushels. corn, "a, IFS, LOG bushels;